ESPN: “Most likely Heat’s #1 choice will be Kyle Lowry”

Brian Windhorst, speaking on ESPN has once again reignited the Kyle Lowry to Miami rumours, this time in a sign-and-trade context:

The Heat should be able to open up somewhere in the neighbourhood of $7-8M of salary cap space so they can chase free-agents. Most likely their #1 choice will be Kyle Lowry, the unrestricted free agent of the Toronto Raptors.

When asked why Lowry would take less money since he hasn’t had his payday in the NBA yet, Windhorst responded:

Maybe the Heat could trade Norris Cole and open up an extra $2M (for Kyle Lowry)

From the article linked, Windhorst is explicitly saying that the Heat

The team is known to be interested in Toronto Raptors free agent point guard Kyle Lowry.

Whatever the case, with LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, and Udonis Haslem opting out of their contracts, the Heat have an NBA-record $55 million available in cap space to play with, and Lowry could quite easily be their primary target. As an FYI, a similar rumour (actually, a more brazen one) was circulated by Ric Bucher before apologizing.